Ten-Minute Papers, SysEB Section: Systematics of Hymenoptera

Wednesday, November 13, 2013: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Meeting Room 4 ABC (Austin Convention Center)
Moderators:
Bonnie Blaimer
Elijah Talamas


1:30 PM
Welcoming Remarks
1:32 PM
1:44 PM
The current state of knowledge of Palaearctic E. (Eupelmus) Dalman (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae)
Gary A. P. Gibson, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada ; Lucian Fusu, Al. I. Cuza University
1:56 PM
Revision of Asian Trissolcus (Platygastroidea: Telenominae)
Elijah Talamas, USDA ; Matthew Buffington, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Entomology Laboratory (SEL)
2:08 PM
Revision of Nearctic Dendrocerus Ratzeburg (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea)
István Mikó, Pennsylvania State University ; Heather M. Hines, Pennsylvania State University ; Andrew R Deans, Pennsylvania State University
2:20 PM
Phylogenetics, taxonomy and host use of Neotropical Glyptapanteles parasitoid wasps
Diana Carolina Arias Penna, University of Illinois ; James B. Whitfield, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:32 PM
How social wasps evolved
James H. Hunt, North Carolina State University
2:44 PM
Phylogenetic relationships of yellowjackets inferred from nine loci (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Vespinae, Vespula and Dolichovespula)
Federico Lopez Osorio, University of Vermont ; Kurt Pickett, University of Vermont ; J. M. Carpenter, American Museum of Natural History ; Bryan Ballif, University of Vermont ; Ingi Agnarsson, University of Vermont
2:56 PM
The evolution of desaturase genes in ants
Elizabeth Cash, Arizona State University ; Martin Helmkampf, Arizona State University ; Jürgen Gadau, Arizona State University
3:08 PM
Break
3:18 PM
Uncovering a Cretaceous ant genus
Phillip M. Barden, American Museum of Natural History
3:30 PM
Phylogenetic structure of arboreal and leaf litter ant communities in Madagascar
Bonnie Blaimer, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution ; Ted Schultz, Smithsonian Institution ; Seán Brady, National Museum of Natural History
3:42 PM
Small but mighty – A Phylogeny of Spilomenina (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Crabronidae)
Laura Breitkreuz, Univerisity of Kansas ; Michael Ohl, Museum für Naturkunde
3:54 PM
Taxonomic and behavioral components of faunal comparisons over time: The bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) of Boulder County past and present (Colorado, USA)
Paul Goldstein, University of Maryland ; Virginia Scott, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
4:06 PM
New records and a key to the species of genus Hockeria Walker (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Toheed Iqbal, Department of Entomology, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan
4:18 PM
Concluding Remarks